Quizziz: Participles and Gerunds

This is a quizziz game that was made by a colleague of mine.  I've used it in my classes, and found it useful, so I'm positing it here.  
The students are presented with a sentence, and have to identify whether the -ing word is a continuous verb, a gerund, or a participle.

It would work well as a follow up to this sorting activity that I have previously posted.

Gerunds and Infinitives with Verbs: Video and Gapfill Worksheet

Video: Gerunds and Infinitives with Verbs

Worksheet: docs, pub

I used this video from Easy English when introducing gerunds and infinitives following certain verbs.

The video is quite long, but I only play the first 2 and a half minutes.

As a lead-in, I introduce the term work-life balance, and I get students to talk about what work-life balance is like in their country.

Then, I play the video with the gist question "What is Susan's work-life balance like?"

Then we play the video again with the specific information questions.

Then a gap-fill and then a sorting activity for the noticing phase.

Don't Forget to Live Your Life- Gerunds and Infinitives with Verbs

https://youtu.be/PT85QlyEjQI?si=JREELkdpDI8M4RT7

What time does Susan wake up every day?

What time does Susan go to sleep?

What does Susan aspire to be in the next five years?

What does Susan need to raise money to buy?

Who does Susan miss living with?

Who does Susan miss joking around with?

What time does Susan wake up every day?

What time does Susan go to sleep?

What does Susan aspire to be in the next five years?

What does Susan need to raise money to buy?

Who does Susan miss living with?

Who does Susan miss joking around with?

https://youtu.be/PT85QlyEjQI?si=JREELkdpDI8M4RT7

Hi Maria.

Hi Susan 

It's so good________ you. I'm trying________  when the last time I saw you was.

Oh, I don't know. But every time I suggest ________ , you have some excuse. Are you trying ________  me?

You know I always look forward ________  you! I’ve been meaning ________  you a visit, but I just couldn't find the time. I love ________ time with you.  You're my best friend. But I've been very busy with my job. I want ________  promoted and earn more, but promotions take a lot of work. Imagine________   ________  up at 5 am every day and ________ ________  at midnight! I aspire ________  a CEO in the next five years and I'll work towards ________ my dream a reality.

If you continue ________  so hard, you risk ________ sick.

I need ________ money________  a bigger apartment and a new car. I have lots of plans and dreams that I need ________ .

You always need ________  money for something and you neglect ________  life to the fullest. You never get ________  enough time with the people you love. And time passes by.

That's true. I don't get ________  my family as often as I'd like. I miss ________ with my parents. I remember ________ in and ________ up to a home-cooked breakfast. I miss ________ my parents out in the garden every day ________ after their vegetable plants. I also miss ________ around with my brother. I plan ________ them next month. I've been so busy lately that I struggle ________  in touch with them.

Hi Maria.

Hi Susan 

It's so good to see you. I'm trying to remember when the last time I saw you was.

Oh, I don't know. But every time I suggest meeting, you have some excuse. Are you trying to avoid me?

You know I always look forward to meeting you! I’ve been meaning to pay you a visit, but I just couldn't find the time. I love spending time with you.  You're my best friend. But I've been very busy with my job. I want to get promoted and earn more, but promotions take a lot of work. Imagine having to get up at 5 am every day and going to sleep at midnight! I aspire to be a CEO in the next five years and I'll work towards making my dream a reality.

If you continue to work so hard, you risk getting sick.

I need to raise money to buy a bigger apartment and a new car. I have lots of plans and dreams that I need to achieve.

You always need to raise money for something and you neglect to live life to the fullest. You never get to spend enough time with the people you love. And time passes by.

That's true. I don't get to see my family as often as I'd like. I miss living with my parents. I remember sleeping in and waking up to a home-cooked breakfast. I miss seeing my parents out in the garden every day looking after their vegetable plants. I also miss joking around with my brother. I plan to visit them next month. I've been so busy lately that I struggle to stay in touch with them.

Sort these words into two categories

aspire, continue, get, go, good, have, imagine, look forward to, love, mean, miss, need, neglect, plan, raise money, remember, risk, suggest, struggle, try, want, work towards,

words that are followed by an infinitive (to+V1)	words that are followed by a gerund (Ving)

Look at this sentence:

It’s so good to see you.

What do you think the rule is?

1. adjectives are followed by gerunds

2. adjectives are followed by infinitives

Noun Phrases

(TESOL Ideas and Worksheets Subdivisions)

Noun Clauses:  (In some grammar books, Noun Clauses are not noun phrases)

* "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight" and "Do You Know Where You're Going To" for Noun Clauses

* Using Strega Nona to Teach Noun Clauses

* Garbage Man for Embedded Noun Clauses

* LINK: Kahoot Game for Embedded Noun Clauses

* LINK: Quizziz for Noun Clauses

* Noun Clause Short Story

Noun Phrase Versus Question

* Sentences starting with "what": questions or exclamations

Prepositional Phrases:

* Diagramming Prepositional Phrases

* Prepositional Phrases: Scrambled Sentences

* LINK: Kahoot on prepositions and prepositional phrases

Quantifiers:

* Too much, too many, enough, not enough Classroom survey: countable and uncountable nouns
* Too much and too many scrambled sentences
* Too much and too many: find your partner 
* Presentation for More, Less, Fewer
* More, Less, Fewer--Scrambled Sentences
* Lesson For Quantifiers on Countable and Uncountable Nouns
* Quantifiers for Countable and Uncountable Nouns (Updated)
* More, Less, Fewer: Lesson Plan
* Lesson on "a few" and "a little"

Relative Clauses (according to some definitions, relative clauses modify noun phrases, but in some grammar books, they are also part of the head noun phrase)

* Omitting the Relative Pronoun 
* Relative Clauses: Who and Which Grab the Card Game
* Relative Clauses Guessing Game
* Relative Clauses Scrambled Sentences
* "-er Nouns" for Relative clauses
* Hurricane: Relative Clauses
* LINK: This is the House that Jack Built
* Relative Clauses Scrambled Sentences 2
* Board Race for Relative Clauses
* Relative Clause with Who Slideshow
* General Knowledge Quiz for Relative Clauses

* Relative Clauses with "This is the House that Jack Built"

* Relative Clause Board Race

* Relative Clauses: Grammar ESL Listening

Reduced Relative Clauses:

* Garbage Man: Reduced Relative Clauses

* LINK: 2 Kahoot games on Participle Clauses replacing Relative Clauses

Gerunds: Grammar ESL Listening

(TESOL Materials--Grammar ESL Listening, Gerunds)

Youtube Video--Slideshow (slides, pub)

Kahoot Quiz for Gerunds and infinitives--sharing link, quiz link
Notes: The questions here are recycled from the Doraemon Game I made on the same grammar point.  It appears I forgot to cite my sources on that game, but if memory serves, the questions came from English Grammar in Use by Raymond Murphy. 
To those original 26 questions, I added 4 questions at the beginning about identifying the use of gerunds within the sentences.  Those 4 questions come from Close Up C1 Unit 4 p.48. 
However, since I believe this can be used independently of that book, I'm also indexing it with both  my Gerunds and Infinitives materials.

Like, Hate, Love + Ving Lesson Plan

(TESOL Worksheets--Present Simple, Word Patterns, Gerunds, CELTA Style Lesson Plans)

Google Drive Folder HERE
Lesson Plan: drive, docs, pub
Slideshow: slides, pub
Model Text Story: drive, docs, pub
Like, love, hate table: drive, docs, pub
Human Bingo: drive, docs, pub
Update: Online version: slides, pub

Gerund Discussion Questions

(TESOL Worksheets-- Gerunds)
Google: docs, pub
[Freer production for a lesson on gerunds.  These questions are cut up, and posted around the room.  Students walk in pairs and discuss the questions.  The questions were taken from this website here--I've adjusted them somewhat.]

What do you always avoid doing until the last minute?

What are some things you enjoy doing every day? How about every week?

Is there anything you have stopped doing recently?

Think about your childhood. What activities do you miss doing?

What activities do you often discuss with your friends when you hang out with them?

What is something you are thinking of doing next year?

What is something you love doing, but don’t have enough time for?

Is there anything you have started doing recently?

What do you like doing on the weekend?

What is something you can’t stand doing? (can’t stand=hate)

Remembering to do things is sometimes hard. What is something you have a hard time remembering? (hard time= difficult)

Human Bingo For Gerunds

(TESOL Worksheet--Gerunds)
Google: drive, docs, pub
[A standard Human Bingo game.  Similar to Find Someone Who.  Students need to walk around the class and find someone who can answer yes to the questions.  If they can get a yes, they can cross out a box.  They need 5 in a row to win.]

Find someone who…

is crazy about exercising	doesn’t like cooking	is addicted to checking their phone	is fond of driving fast	is worried about eating healthy
enjoys watching sports on TV	is afraid of failing their test	is good at playing soccer	likes reading books in their free time	hates doing their homework
is good at singing	is tired from working	FREE	likes swimming	enjoys listening to K-Pop
thinks that watching sports on TV is boring	is interested in volunteering	is afraid of getting in a car accident	loves wearing fancy clothes	enjoys watching movies
is obsessed with playing video games	hates writing long emails	loves spending time with their family	dreams about becoming famous	likes waking up early

For + Gerund Slideshow

(Movie slideshow Grammar Sections--gerunds, prepositions, word patterns)

Taken from The Emperor's New Groove -- part 18, Princess Mononoke-- Part 14

Presentation only version: slides, pub
Version with example sentences from The Emperor's New Groove: slides, pub

Version with example sentences from Princess Mononoke: slides, pub

Version with example sentences from The Emperor's New Groove: slides, pub



Version with example sentences from Princess Mononoke: slides, pub

A gerund as a head of a noun phrase

(Grammar Questions I Couldn't Answer)

This question comes via an IELTS practice reading test.

The sentence in question read:

...By the 1970s, a new respect for the place of buildings with the existing townscape arose.  Preserving historic buildings or keeping only their facades (or fronts) grew common....

In a table completion task, under a box for the characteristics of 1970s architecture, the question was:

___________ of historic buildings

The correct answer was:

preservation of historic buildings

"preservation" isn't in the text, of course, but under the rules of the IELTS test the students need to adjust the grammar of the answer to make it fit with the question blank.  So "preserving historic buildings" becomes "preservation of historic buildings" because a noun is needed to head the prepositional phrase.

One of my students had a different answer.  She wrote:
 the preserving of historic buildings

"Shouldn't this be right as well?" she argued.  "It's a gerund, and a gerund is also a noun, so it also fits the grammar."

the preserving was not one of the answers listed on the IELTS answer sheet, and the IELTS test is notoriously strict about not accepting any alternative answers.  Occasionally they're wrong, but usually they have a good reason why only selected answers are grammatically acceptable.

Based simply on my native speaker intuition, it sounded to me like "preservation of historic buildings" was a complete phrase, whereas "the preserving of historic buildings" sounded like it needed something to complete it.  But I couldn't think of any grammar rule that it was violating.  And furthermore, I had always thought that a gerund could do everything that a noun could do.

I brought this question back up to the office, and received mixed feedback.  Half of the people I queried agreed with me that "the preserving of historic buildings" sounded incomplete, but couldn't think of any explicit rule it was violating.
The other half argued that both "the preserving of historic buildings" and "preservation of historic buildings" were acceptable answers, and the IELTS answer key had make a mistake by not including both variants.

Love, hate, enjoy, dislike Guessing Game

(TESOL Worksheets--Present Simple, Gerunds)
Google: Drive, Docs, Pub
[This is a standard "Guess Your Partner's Answers" Game, used to practice the form of like +Ving. The basis for this comes from a similar worksheet created by a co-worker of mine, but I've re-worked it enough that I feel reasonably comfortable calling this one of my worksheets, and posting it here.]

Change these phrases into questions:

Example: like / do / housework?  Do you like doing housework?

like / do / housework?_____________________________________________

hate / snakes? _____________________________________________

enjoy / sing / karaoke? ___________________________________________

dislike / beer? _____________________________________________

love / cook? _____________________________________________

like / fast food? _____________________________________________

hate / watch / basketball on TV?_____________________________________

enjoy / horror films? _____________________________________________

dislike / travel / by car? ___________________________________________

love / noisy places? _____________________________________________

Next, answer the questions for you.

Number	Question	My Answer
1.	Do you like doing housework?
2.	Do you hate snakes?
3.	Do you enjoy singing karaoke?
4.	Do you dislike beer?
5.	Do you love cooking?
6.	Do you like fast food?
7.	Do you enjoy watching basketball on TV?
8.	Do you enjoy horror films?
9.	Do you dislike travelling by car?
10.	Do you love noisy places?

Finally, see if you can guess your partner’s answers.

My partner’s name: ____________________________

Number	Question	My Guess
1.	Does my partner like doing housework?
2.	Does my partner hate snakes?
3.	Does my partner enjoy singing karaoke?
4.	Does my partner dislike beer?
5.	Does my partner love cooking?
6.	Does my partner like fast food?
7.	Does my partner enjoy watching basketball on TV?
8.	Does my partner enjoy horror films?
9.	Does my partner dislike travelling by car?
10.	Does my partner love noisy places?

Check with your partner.  How many of your guesses were correct?  Give yourself one point for each correct guess.

My total score: